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Auteurs principaux: Nikjoo, Mehraveh, Zuntz, Joe, Moews, Ben
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04025
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author Nikjoo, Mehraveh
Zuntz, Joe
Moews, Ben
author_facet Nikjoo, Mehraveh
Zuntz, Joe
Moews, Ben
contents Ridges in galaxy density fields measured by photometric surveys are 2D projections of filaments in the cosmic web, and so should lens light from background galaxies. We report on a detection of this effect in Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data at high significance, though not independently of galaxy-galaxy lensing. We describe improvements to the existing subspace-constrained mean shift algorithm to locate these ridges efficiently at scale, and examine the dependence of the signal in simulations on cosmological and algorithmic parameters. We find that it depends primarily on $S_8=σ_8 \left( Ω_m / 0.3 \right)^{1/2}$, and discuss improvements to our methodology that would be needed to allow precision parameter estimation.
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spellingShingle Weak Lensing by Photometric Density Ridges
Nikjoo, Mehraveh
Zuntz, Joe
Moews, Ben
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Ridges in galaxy density fields measured by photometric surveys are 2D projections of filaments in the cosmic web, and so should lens light from background galaxies. We report on a detection of this effect in Dark Energy Survey Year 3 data at high significance, though not independently of galaxy-galaxy lensing. We describe improvements to the existing subspace-constrained mean shift algorithm to locate these ridges efficiently at scale, and examine the dependence of the signal in simulations on cosmological and algorithmic parameters. We find that it depends primarily on $S_8=σ_8 \left( Ω_m / 0.3 \right)^{1/2}$, and discuss improvements to our methodology that would be needed to allow precision parameter estimation.
title Weak Lensing by Photometric Density Ridges
topic Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04025